The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 78

“Seven lang years I served for thee, The glassy hill I clamb for thee, The bluidy shirt I wrang for thee; And wilt thou no wauken and turn to me?”

Who acts: damosel, bluidy shirt, thou · What happens: serve, clamb, wrang, wauken, turn · To what, where: glassy hill, damosel

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (damosel, bluidy shirt, thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 served	punct
2	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
3	lang	lang	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 years	compound
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 served	obl:unmarked
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 served	nsubj
6	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 thee	case
8	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 served	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hill	punct
10	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hill	det
11	glassy	glassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hill	amod
12	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 served	obl
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 clamb	nsubj
14	clamb	clamb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hill	acl:relcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 thee	case
16	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 clamb	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wrang	punct
18	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shirt	det
19	bluidy	bluidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 shirt	amod
20	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wrang	nsubj
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 wrang	nsubj
22	wrang	wrang	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hill	appos
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 thee	case
24	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 wrang	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 wauken	punct
26	And	and	CCONJ	_	30 wauken	cc
27	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	30 wauken	aux
28	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 wauken	nsubj
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 wauken	det
30	wauken	wauken	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 served	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 turn	cc
32	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 wauken	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 me	case
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 turn	obl
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	30 wauken	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 wauken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	serve in a quote	past	the damosel = damosel	the glassy hill		year	for thee	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for thou=Recipient
2	clamb in a quote	present	the damosel = damosel	the glassy hill not said here			for thee	tree rules
3	wrang in a quote		the bluidy shirt				for thee	tree rules
4	wauken in a quote	future	thou					tree rules
5	turn in a quote	infinitive	thou not said here		the damosel = damosel			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to i=Result

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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